Ariza changes his tune about Mosley, now saying he shouldn’t be overlooked for Pacquiao bout
December 29th, 2010
By Chris Williams: My how Alex Ariza, the strength and conditioning coach for Manny Pacquiao, has changed his mind about 39-year-old Shane Mosley. Ariza was totally against Pacquiao fighting the shot-looking Mosley, saying this after Pacquiao’s win over Antonio Margarito: “Manny might not even train for Mosley.” Ariza wanted Pacquiao to fight Juan Manuel Marquez again and finally prove to boxing fans that he’s a better fighter than the Mexican after having struggled badly in two prior fights with him.
In an article by Nick Gionco at the Manila Bulletin – mb.com, Ariza now says this about Mosley: “It’s not right to count him [Mosley] out even if his last fight [with Sergio Mora] was not that impressive.” Mora should have included Mosley’s fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr as well along with the Mora fight. Mosley looked horrid in the Mayweather fight, even worse than the Mora bout. But it is interesting to see how Ariza is now seemingly toeing the corporate line by saying Mosley shouldn’t be overlooked by Pacquiao. I’m wondering if/when Ariza is going to start really selling Mosley by saying he thinks he can actually beat Pacquiao. This fight is going to really need a hard marketing push by Pacquiao’s team to interest casual boxing fans because it seems like such a terrible mismatch, much worse than the Margarito and Joshua Clottey fight in my view.
This runs counter to what a lot of boxing fans and writers are saying about the Mosley-Pacquiao bout, because many people see this as a dreadful mismatch, not even worth it for Pacquiao to fight. It looks completely like a money-grab fight and not one that promises to be competitive or interesting for boxing fans to watch.
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ariza you make me laugh with your useless comments, keep then to yourself next time
This fight will be good…. For 7 seconds then mosley will be huffin and puffin… Ariza is a glorified drug dealer… If was a good trainer other sport teams would have picked him up.
Ariza just found out Mosley came up on sum of his stach PEDs?
Why didn’t Toney use Ariza instead of TY Boe Billy Banks when He fought Cortue ?
They were coconuts with very tough to open husk and hard shell but Manny turned them into cherries and that’s what haters see now…
the might as well give this up aint nobody gonna buy it everybody no pac girl team cherry pickin game
Chris Williams forget dreaming pacman and marquez triology.It won’t gonna happen.Write something else better and not a pacman’s hate article.Maybe write something like your family instead.
Mosley’s chances are about a equell to Delahoya or margarito chances were when they fought the Pacman
hope mosley takes some of those pills he used to for this bout.
dont know why this is a surprise top rank arum and manny camp have flip flopped statements over and over and over and over . this is not new. not the first or last time.
And the marketing begins…..2 years ago I had alot more respect for Pacqiuao. Even when he took the David Diaz fight instead of the rematch with Marquez I thought, he is just fighting Diaz for a warm up match for the higher weights thats why he isnt fighting the true champs at the lightweight level (casamayor,Juan Diaz, Julio Diaz, Nate Cambell) but then he kept going and fighting the #3 and #4 guys in the division. Now it seems like thats all he does. Does Mosley even hold a belt?
Of COURSE his trainers have to think about how Mosley can be dangerous. THat’s their job! The stupidest thing they could do is dismiss anyone when their job is to prepare their athlete for unknowns.
You really find it so strange you need to write an article?
Their are trying to sell it,but we are not trying to by it..
You got that right Lou.
Arrizza was told by Roach are you trying to ruin our PPV sham.
chris williams YOU ARE TO OBSESSED TO MANNY PACQUIAO
ALL OF YOUR PREDICTIONS TURN TO BE WRONG
GET A LIFE
Roach, Ariza, and Bob Arum are just plain silly and think we are to.